How To Follow the Elite on Twitter & Are you One?

Finally embracing Twitter (part 1) there is a Following to be built. With a lot of ways to find people and businesses, first you have to decide on WHY you want to Twitter. For me it started as being about business. Always looking for ways to promote my business, it was about promoting listings, local communities and to encourage people to choose me to assist them with their Real Estate needs. I have found it is that and so much more.

Following people from ActiveRain was the first step. I listened to RainRadio(already knew about @bradandersohn) and heard about @kimwood, @pchaney and @myrtlebeachblog. Once they followed me back, I could see the Twitter names of those they follow. I started clicking on their addresses, looked at the mini profile and some of their posts and started following many of them. And it grows from there. Their followers would do the same when they happened to catch my updates and follow me and I, in turn, follow them. This in itself gets you started.

Bill Gassett just posted about Twellowhoodwhich is a good place to find local people. After all, we want to engage in a local conversation. I have heard reference to "Tweetups" where someone tweet about getting together and invite Tweeters to show up - what a great way to meet new friends and network. While Twellowhood is for top locals, Twellow is for top Twitters in categories of interest to you.

Their are so many twitter tools out there for almost anything. So here are a couple to find the Top/Elite/Popular people on Twitter - locally or nationally. Mr. Tweet is your assistant and will search your extended network and recommend who you should be following and who of your follows should you follow back. Another is Twittergrader. I ran across this early when my score was like 4 and now I am considered a TwitterElite for Metro Detroit--great surprise. The cool thing is that I clicked on the Elite button after my name and found I was #5 and a list of all others in my Metro Detroit area and followed some. As you scroll down there is a lot more information on the page - didn't notice before as there was none as a beginner. There are Tabs at the top of the TwitterGrader for other searches: TwitterElite and Search (for terms) and TwitSnip where it will not only shorten a URL but shorten a post in what is called "twitabulary"-twitter short vocabulary. You can also check the status of others you know on Twitter. Also check out another post about Twitter alerts.

This should create a lot of Twitter people to follow and don't forget to Follow Me on Twitter--I'll follow back.

OK, I just don't get this. I signed up on Twiiter, why would anyone care what I am doing? I searched my town- a few mentions, mostly from days ago, one person I don't know from my town. I searched AZ and AZ real estate and just real estate. Is it just people basically having conversations about whatever? I spend too much time now having conversations on the phone and with walk-ins and by email. I don't have time to chat for fun.How do you use Twitter for business? Does it get you business? Or is it just socializing, and maybe the relationships MIGHT turn into business?

This is a great post. You learn something new everyday. I use HubSpot all the time and has not seen or been told about this tool. Thanks. I looked at my grade and it is an 82. Not bad. Now I need to really learn what I am doing. Please follow me at jbakst.

Diane & Cindy: Mor3e online work and confusing is what I thought as well that had me keep putting it off - now I love it and really wish I had embraced it earlier - but we do it when we do it.

Russell - OK it's the holidays - I hopeyou have learned more about it - so many great posts on the Twitter group.

Jon: It is great that our blogs automatically show up on Twitter. ActiveRain is great.

Jason: @kimwood helped me get started as well.

Sonya: So glad to be connected - I love finding local Twitterers and the possible networking. They say that people who Twitter will choose a local Realtor just because they Twitter - that's how "in" being on Twitter is. I look forward to reading your posts. I put everyone "local" on a separate group in Tweetdeck.

James: It is work - but the "real time" conversation is about what is cuttting edge in the world. I follow a lot of SEO, Twitter tips and social media "gurus" - most of which are not on AR and I would never find them otherwise. Well worth the work.

Kim: Glad it was useful

Mike: You are in my ActiveRain group in Tweetdeck.

Lauren: I find new people every day by checking out who the top people tweet to etc.

JJ Hanah: You are Welcome.

Kris: Glad we are in Tweetville together.

Leslie: I follow a lot of people in the fields of SEO and social media and find a lot of tips on many things including how to use Twitter for business. I have found a lot of local people and create a group in Tweetdeck. I listen watch the conversations and jump in from time to time. I don't talk that much about Real Estate but they can look at my profile. Plus all my AR posts are Tweeted including market reports etc.

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